IZC els mp ne at Pulp timated 0.000 wit igh : ei Sheena MP Calls For Thorough Investigation «van om | Of Proposal to Use Atlin Waters For Alcoa {0 men employed auction job by an occupied quarters house which at housed than all their more hey lost t f l he ) Some of dowr e and heiped ime ING SAVED De cene 0 the mill were cut lames melted lead ide the returned of to the ind tele tion morning mea was re- i] r wing at kept ering pread the b one le the oned Dn Get alely ed 1 e than lay by had rescue taken from Green- ration the ice- when They had rop sup- ring - ( ge) ATHER— SYNOpsis 1 a over B.C 4 ee coast this } * ew points in Shower luring the falling Forecast Casioy Pp me light rain, herly on UPerature, Slens? 4M exposed Sincere. High at “MNdspit and Prince cable, | Railways | | | downtown VOL. XLI, No. 227 sn a Pm PATROL ROADS—The United States has serious doubts abo for its $3,000,000,000 expenditure on military aid to Franee and the three associated states of The money is used in the war against the Communist-led Vietminh Indo-China equipment—such as these - NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1952 Natives Assail Strikers The Native Brother- hood is blaming the United Fishermen’s Union and Allied Workers for a loss of $150,000 which they will not be able to ut the dividends it is receiving American armored vehicles used to patrol’ roads and protect Franco-Viet make because the nion Namese trucks from Communist guerrillas—continues to flow into Indo-China and 80 far the ™ : * Southeast, Asia country has not fallen to the Reds. But the US. is concerned that the smaller has declared “7 fish Vietminh forces with only a trickle of supplies from the Red Chinese can hold the French caught by natives as and Viet Namese-at bay Special to The Daily News ATLIN--The people of north ern British Columbia should in- sist that every aspect of the proposal to use Canadian water power for an Alaskan aluminum melter should be investigated thoroughly before an agreement ; made That's what E. T. Applewhaite of Prince Rupert, Liberal Mem- here sponsored the Board of Trade by He said many desired projects |might be made to fit into the picture, including the Atlin to Half a Ton of Gold Stolen From Airport Biggest Gold Theft in Canada Loots $215,000 in Bullion By The Canadian Press TORONTO—Half a ton of gold bullion, worth about $215,000 has disappeared from an unguarded ered Cargo shed at suburban Malton airport terminal of] power from Canadian waters. Trans-Canada Air Lines, It is bel gold theft-in Canada. yike The gold; in six wooden boxes, ieved the largest was part of a shipment of 10 Onl ? Days boxes on its way to Montreal The remaining four boxes went to Montreal on Flight 2 as l ft t S scheduled Wednesday night e O ee Disclosure of the robbery Wild Animais yesterday touched off a con | tinent-wide alarm, Although the shipment vanished late i <3 There is only today and te-| Wednesday, police were not | bee oy row left for those who have called in until yesterday morn- | ™Orrow i f ing and RCMP were not no- | not yet seen the interesting train tified until the afternoon. lof African jungle animals to TCA officials declined to com-| View the first zoo on wheels ment on the case with the ex-j|ever to enter Prince Rupert. | ception of a brief statement by| geveral thousand people who Dennis Barclay, bag 7 re-| have visited the train since it lations officer, who saic t : ‘ 2 re a W oda As far as the TCA is con- | &trived here a week ago : cerned, the gold is just missing.| Say it is not only educationa We have no official knowledge | but “most interesting and thrill- that it is stolen, nor do we knoW| ino” to observe these animals exactly WHat 108 wOrts | who have been plucked from NO GUARDS |their native jungle wilds. The gold o~ gm to the Ye | it is the first time many port Wednesday afternoon Dby)| ah : | Prinee e ‘ ave Brinks, Inc. They turned it over | Prine Rupert children h to TCA cargo handlers whojever seen any of these animals signed for it and placed it inj|and it may be some time before |a wire-netted cage, similar to|they will again have such an |} bank tellers opportunity. The cage was locked with The zoo is here under the |sponsorship of the Prince Ru- | were placed in the vicinity. | pert Shrine Club. The train | Police said they warned TCA| leaves Saturday night for the to take more precautions follow- east jing two break-ins within the | Some of the most interesting last two months at the air ter-| tropical and semi-tropical an-~ }minal, 18 miles northwest of|imals to be seen in the train Toronto. Police said| are the world’s smallest mon- keys which measure not a foot a small padlock but no guards ; apparently. nothing had been} done and one high official said|in length; the baboon with a lhe was “disgusted” with the| baby cuddled in her arms and theft. ithe rare Gibbon ape from Siam Thieves had six hours to make | which never drinks but dips his their getaway. Although the de- {knuckles in water, layed 8:10 p.m. flight—on which! There is Kiliminjaro, the the 10 boxes: were ete oa | African leopard who is about | | arrived at Montreal at 10:45 p.m.| 4, pecome a mama—and she the news that six of the boxes! still may, before the train were missing’ did not reach TCA) jeaves, If the baby leopard is offices here until 2 a.m. YeS-| horn, a $100 bond will be given varday. to the boy or girl who submits the most suitable name for GOOD SMOKES the cub. Quebec accounted for all the |Canadian production of cigar |} and pipe tobacco in 1951 The train epens each day at 110 am ber of Parliament for Skeena | riding, said at a public meeting | Atlin | (CP PHOTO) | “hot,” The natives signed a separate jagreement with the Fisheries | Association Tuesday to go fish- |ing for fall chum. | The UFAWU have been on strike for 19 days because of a fish price dispute, which they rejected and the Native Brother- hood accepted Indian fishermen yesterday assailed the striking union for labelling their fish “hot” and added that the union's action “is reprehensible and unsup- portable in a democratic com- munity.” The day after the Brother- hood signed the separate agree- ment with canners, the UFAWU Juneau highway and the Hazel- jton to Alaska highway. “He decried “a dog in the manger attitude” which would | refuse to consider any agree- | ment for the utilization of the | Atlin waters but also urged | that the best possible utiliza- tion in Canadian waters should be ascertained and then ad- Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'’PJince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRICE FIVE CENTS Indian Fishermen Union For Heavy Los . | he % NIGHT TH Man., stook-threshes barley in An attempt is being made to institute a uniform system of registration of professional en- gineers in Canada, Jack Mer- hered to. tendermen voted not to handle | Referring to recent articles on|any fish caught by the natives. jthe subject, Mr. Applewhaite| $horeworkers also refused to | said no approach “whatever” had | been made to the Dominion gov- -ernment and indicated that-con- |siderable time would elapse be- | tone the project became a prac- | Brotherhood in a message to all ay ge ms és ;| native fishermen told them not Le ea agus (12,80 out fishing because the lo pe ae cannes $4n0.- junion had declared the fish hot | 900.900 plant in the Taiya Valley |224,2° one would handle it. | 900,000 plant in the Taiya Valley Guy Williams, member of jnear Skagway the legislative committee of | (The announcement gave NO| the Native Brotherhood, and | date as to when actual construc-| spokesman for the group here \tion was to start but said the! in a statement at 1 p.m, today development hinged on an agree-| said: “This was a legitimate agree- |ment as far as our members are (Since the announcement, | concerned. there have been no reports that} “Without loyalty to an organ- Alcoa has approached either the | ization a member is no good to B.C. or Federal governments re-| that organization and as mem- |garding diversion of Canadian) bers that’s the position we are handle the fish if brought into the fish plants. ‘NO FISHING . Yesterday Chief Scow of the j}ment to obtain hydro-electric | waters, | in. (In Victoria, recently, form- “The Native Brotherhood in er lands minister E, T. Kenney, | the past has made tremendous who was instrumental in ob- | Strides for the natives in all chant, registrar of the Associa- tion of Professional Engineers of |so far nothing definite has been B.C., said Thursday. OTTAWA (CP) — RESHING—This evening scent is familiar throughout western Canada this month farmers work overtime harvesting record-breaking grain crops. Here H. Natuk of Lockport, Railway Seeks ‘to Dismiss Motion Against Rate Boost today asked the Board of Transport Commissioners to reject a motion from eight provincial governments calling for dismissal of the application for an eight per cent increase in freight rates. John L. O’Brien, senior com-® DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 cp to his stationary combine. (CP PHOTO) Engineers Moot Uniform Registration System For All Canadian Provinces Here to address Prince Rupert members of the association, he said the matter has been dis- cussed for several years at meet- ings of the Dominion Council but “We want all provinces to have the same requirements,” he said, explaining that in B.C, graduate engineers must have four years’ experience before they can be registered with the association, while in Quebec they may reg- ister upon graduation. In On- tario, graduates need one year and in Alberta-and Saskatehewan the time limit is two years. Mr. Merchant said B.C. is wil~ ling to reduce its four-year rule and probably the matter will be threshed out at next year’s an- nual meeting in Edmonton. Mr. Merchant, who was mak- ing his first visit here, outlined activities of the association dur- fng the past year. He returried t6 Vancouver by air ay. Neely Moore, vice-president of the northern group, Was chair- done. Canadian Pacific Railway pany counsel, said evidence pre- sented to the board by the railways this week has fully shown the need for the $40,000,- 000-a-year increase. : He opened the railways final argument in the case the day after counsel for the provincial giant Aluminum Company of “Tt should be clearly under-| stood to the public that no com- |panies dictate to the Native | taining water rights for the cs | | Canada project at Kitimat, said he opposed any move to | | | divert water power out of the | Brotherhood | province, ‘We operate under a provin- “4 cial charter. We are not affiliat- suggested that if ALCOA|‘S | wees rece M wire oe ie ed with the United Fishermen we ~ oe jsita|and Allied Workers Union but |}power that the comparty build} i th nat wet id | their plant in this province.) eee We RE aie nee | with them. Mr. Applewhaite reported to a il also Paget last “I would like to personally session of Parliament at Ottawa| State I do not know whether and also on his visit to the| this co-operation will con- Canadian fighting forces in| tinue. Korea | As northern fishermen He also discussed local af- |2t™ound the vicinity of Prince fairs, including the Atlin air- | Rupert and the Queen Charlotte port, upon which $15,000 is | Islands we are not interested in now being spent. | Johnstone Strait prices. Before the meeting the Board | $150,000 LOSS of Trade tendered a complimen-| “Our interest is on the Queen tary dinner to Mt. Applewhaite | Charlotte Islands where the run at’ which president Ted Smith |is now on and will soon be over. made the member a presentation “Action of the UFAWU in de- in appreciation of his services claring the fish hot already has with regard to the airport and;caused an estimated $150,000 other local matters. loss to Masset tribe alone. cael ills encsihipii “More than 90 per cent of the crew members of these boats U.K. to Buy More Wheat have no source of earnings, whereas most members of the OTTAWA The United Kingdom has agreed to buy “Among those who have ob- tained employment fishing dur- : | “It is only right that John wheat agreement, it was an- oa deunned today. | Public should know or be made and food. They have now all re- shels sed b rage Aap viral ghee an ‘umed to port and have pulled ment announcing the deal. our members have no trades “It's somewhat lower, however,| #Md there is only a limited amount of work in this part of the country during the winter. (Continued on page 6) UFAWU are capable of acquir- ing other employment for the winter months, 115,000,000 bushels of wheat | 8 the summer have been teach- from Canada during the 1952-53 coined aoe crop year under an international : i in | #eduainted with these facts. wn te a. et wheat sold in| “ “Some of our boats have taken This is slightly more than on as much as $250 worth of gear international wheat agreement |™ their nets. in the 1951-52 crop year, said | Trade Minister Howe in a state- than the total purchases of wheat and wheat flour (by U.K.) from Canada in that year.” “It will mean extreme hard- | ship for Prince Rupert because | governments—all except Ontar- io and Quebec—had entered a motion of non-suit at the close of railway evidence. The provinces did not submit any evidence—for the first time in postwar rate hearings—and are to rely on argument later today. Trygve Lie To Retire on. Life Pension UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. CP)— Secretary-General Trygve Lie, |56, has decided to step down from his $40,000-a-year United Nations post on Feb. 1, 1953, at the end of a three-year exten- sion of his term, and retire to Norway. Some day he would like to be prime minister of Norway. This was disclosed today by persons who know the mind of Norway's former foreign minis- ter. He has been boss of the 4,000-man UN secretariat since 1946. When he leaves he will get a lifetime pension of $10,000 a year, but cannot hold public of- fice until from the UN for five years. . 3 Killed at ‘Highway Side treal’s Metropolitan highway. he has been away MONTREAL @ — Three per- sons were killed last night when \they were hit by a truck as they lrepaired a flat tire on their automobile at the side of Mon- half a mile from Dorval airport. man of the meeting. L. E. (Al) Smith, former di- visional engineer for the Public Works Department here, was president last year. He was transferred to Kamloops a month Wicks Plans Reform Labor | Department | | VICTORIA €P)—Changes that | will increase the efficiency of the whole labor department are now being considered. and will be announced shortly, Labor Minister Lyle Wicks said Thurs- | A Head: aay. Mosher Heads ago. Attending the meeting were: Harold Lynum and Lloyd Vallee of Terrace, and G. V. Roche, J. D. Morriss, W. R. Meighen, J. H. Shumka, John Wesch, Dick Gar- rett, Eugene Bartlett, R. C. Tel- ford and Neely Moore, all of Prince Rupert. “There will be nothing spec-| ° tacular,” he said, “but there) CCL 13th Time will be a great many little 7 changes that will contribute to) |a general improvement of poor | White Defeated efficiency.” & | This week-end Mr. Wicks will) TORONTO @—A. R. Mosher meet with conciliation officers, today Was re-elected for his 13th and later hopes to have the en-| term as president of the Cana- tire department attend a large | qian Congress of Labor. meeting ,possibly with outside! ‘phe 71-year-old veteran labor speakers. | leader met only left-wing oppo- His aim, he said, is placing of) sition. William L. White of Van- new confidence in the depart-|couver Marine Workers, nomin- ment by employees, labor un-|ated by the left-wingers, met a ions, and management. crushing defeat. BULLETINS Formal Prebe in Ship Sinking OTTAWA (CP)—Transport Minister Chevrier has ordered a formal investigation into the loss of the Pacific Coastal cruise ship Princess Kathleen in Alaskan waters Sept. 7. The transport depart- ment said the investigation under the Canada Shipping Act probably will be held in Vancouver in the near future. ‘Stolen Gold Bound For U.K. MONTREAL (CP)—Canada Air Lines officiais™ said today $215,000 worth of gold bullion reported missing from Toronto’s Malton airport destined for United Kingdom for trans-shipment to undis- closed destination. ’ ie nantes ka ent